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By Bill Lydon, Editor The Daikin Industries Intelligent Equipment platform translates the IoT buzzwords into a real-world IoT application. The platform provides predictive and preventative maintenance HVAC information that helps facility managers maintain equipment before it loses efficiency or impacts occupant comfort.

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EnOcean Alliance now has a membership base of 300 companies worldwide, developing innovative automation solutions for sustainable building projects.

Ayyeka Wavelet AI-enabled devices use advanced lithium batteries to power two-way wireless communications.

Orders of manufacturing technology reached $435.7 million in March 2024. Orders grew nearly 25% above the February 2024 level.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is pushing the capabilities of machine vision systems to supercharge speed, efficiency and accuracy.

Additional high point: fourth quarter of 2020 was second-best quarter for robot orders.

The International Mobility Conference (SIIMC 2022) brings together the mobility ecosystem live with virtual and physical events.

The new platforms are a complete software environment tailored to new microcontroller trends and industry-specific software use cases.

The tunable diode laser analyzer market was valued at USD 280 million in 2014, which is expected to reach USD 548.8 million by 2021, growing at a CAGR of 10.2% from 2015 to 2021.

The global concentrated solar power (CSP) market will register phenomenal growth at a 19.4% CAGR between 2014 and 2020. In 2013, the global concentrated solar power market was worth US$2,507.4 million, however, driven by multiple factors, the market is projected to reach US$8,674.7 million by the end of 2020.

Open innovation is the key to overcoming obstacles for IoT development currently hindered by vast amount of different protocol standards that create communication barriers.

GrafTech needed a secure, scalable solution that provided improved visibility into machine operations. The company partnered with Rockwell Automation to incorporate FactoryTalk VantagePoint EMI software into GrafTech’s newest version of the ArchiTech system.

By Bill Lydon, Editor Fluke recently introduced Fluke Connect, a system which allows maintenance technicians to wirelessly transmit measurement data from their test tools to their smart phones. There is a lot of hype about the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. To date, from what I have seen on the market, Fluke Connect is the most useful, productivity-increasing industry solution based on these technologies.

The PLCopen organization and Automation.com conducted a joint survey of PLC programming preferences. Here are some of the results to inform you of current trends in PLC programming and users thoughts on vendors.

By Red Lion Panel meter development has remained relatively static the last few years. Today, new, cost-efficient devices with more advanced capabilities are available in a smaller package to accompany today's miniaturization trend.

Historian automatically identifies, gathers and configures high-speed detailed data from any control system or human-machine interface (HMI) software.

Enhancements in FactoryTalk include VantagePoint EMI v5.0, VantagePoint Energy bundle, Metrics Software v11.0 and Historian SE Software v4.0.

Based in Germany, Apodius was founded in 2012 and serves original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as well as suppliers in the automotive, aerospace, electronics and appliances industries with the development, production and integration of measurement solutions for carbon fiber.

PACK EXPO will take place in Chicago from Nov. 3-6.